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where the As pushed over.
That was the end of a glorius
conference race, but the Ags had
THE BATTALION
-MONDAY MORNING, SEPT. 21, 1942
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one more fling at football before
they were through. They met the
Tulane Green Wave at the Sugar
Bowl in New Orleans for the Na
tional Championship. It was there
that Coach Homer Norton’s boys
played their greatest game as
Herbie Smith, Walemon Price and
of course, John Kimbrough led
the way to a thrilling 14-13 vic
tory. The latter truly was a great
fullback that day as he sparked
his team from behind to victory.
1940 Season
Well, the conference flag proud
ly waved over Aggieland after an
absence of 12 years. But now the
Aggies were after another coveted
conference tradition—that of win-
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ning the SWC title twice in a row.
Following the great 1939 season,
the Ags lost but three members of
the starting lineup—Herbie Smith,
Joe Boyd, who made the majority
of All-American teams, and Wale
mon Price, passer deluxe. The ma
jority of the sports experts, there
fore, quickly hopped the Aggie
bandwagon and, almost, to a man
picked the Cadets to win the crown,
jinx or no jinx.
Well, for eight consecutive games
everything looked rosy. One by one,
opposing teams were crushed by
Norton's powerful machine. Texas
A. & L, Tulsa, U.C.L.A. T.C.U.,
Baylor, Arkansas and Rice all
went down in succession. Only
Texas stood in the way of another
perfect football season, a bowl bid
and a national championship. But
the jinx that hovered over great
Aggie teams in the past was pre
sent that memorable Thanksgiving,
day as Texas astounded the sports
wolrd by upsetting mighty Texas
A. & M.. to the tune of 7-0. How
ever, the Ags had clinched at least
a part of the title, and when S. M.
U. defeated Rice, 7-6, in the final
game of the season, the Cadets
shared the title with the Mustangs.
Again, the legend that no team
can win two conference champion
ships in a row was true. Norton’s
eleven received the Cotton Bowl
bid and upheld SWC glory by eke-
ing out a 13-12 win over Fordham.
1941 Season
That year can well be regarded
as Coach Homer Norton’s great
est piece of coaching. Losing nine
of the eleven starters and the ma
jority of the 1939-40 material,
Norton began to work from the
ground up. Not even conceded a
chance for the first division, Nor-
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ton surprised everyone, including
Aggie partisans, when he came
through with a conference title.
Centering his attack around Triple-
Threat Derace Moser, one of the
two returning starters, Norton sur
prised each team with speed and
passing genious. Moser had only
passed three times during his col
lege career but last year tossed a
total of 17 touchdowns. Sam
Houston State was blasted 54-0,
not particulary a surprise. How
ever, when the Aggies took a sup
posedly powerful A. & I. team to
the tune of 41-0, folks began to
suspect that, after all, there was
more than just hope for the Aggie
eleven. N.Y.U. went down next,
49-7, and Moser’s passing magic
clicked almost to perfection against
T. C. U. whom the Ags beat, 14-0
at Fort Worth.
Beat Baylor, 48-0
The Aggies, then, reached their
peak when they passed, ran, kick
ed and did everything with the
pingskin in administering Baylor
one of its worst defeats, 48-0. Ar
kansas, S.M.U., and Rice came
next but Texas, who had one of
its greatest teams stumbled the
Aggie Kyle Field jinx to the tune
of 23-0. The season was not over,
however, as the Ags showed that
they were really champions as they
rose up from that defeat to rack
Washington State, 7-0. By the vir
tue of that victory, they were in
vited to the Cotton Bowl to play
hosts to the Alabam Crimson Tide,
but found the going a bit rough as
Jimmy Nelson led the revamped
‘Bama team to a 29-21 win.
Great Record
There you have the three year
record of A. & M. Only Texas
university has managed to beat
the Cadets in the conference. The
others found the ingenious coach
ing of Homer Norton and his as
sistants too much and went down
in defeat.
This year, the Ags start on the
road of their fourth consecutive
title. Will they make it? Well, only
time can tell!
for or not the Aggies are his kind
of people, and if you want to talk
to a real Aggie with a real store
of experience and good bull, drop
around and gab with him some
time, you may learn something
about life!
—McELROY—
(Continued From Page 9)
But, strange as it seems, he never
got there. In Dallas, someone told
him about Texas A. & M., and as
Mac put it, “I had never been in
college, and wasn’t doing anything,
so I decided to go to college.”
In 1934 he took his freshman
and senior work, majoring in
English and minoring in rural so
ciology. Even after being out of
school for 21 years, he finished the
year with a “B” average.
“My English prof and I disagreed
on a grade on my term theme. I
thought I should have an A,' he
gave me an F. So I made him a
little deal. I told him I would
write him a theme, and if I sold
it to any publication he might
pick, with the exception of Harp
er’s, I was to get my A. If not,
I’d take the F.”
“He thought I couldn’t do it, so
he picked the New York Times. I
wrote a 6500 word original theme
on sociology, and not only sold it
for $30 to the New York Times,
but got my A in English, rewrote
the theme, handed it in in *my
sociology course, and got an A out
of that!”
After leaving school in 1935 he
worked for the Texas Centennial
Exposition, ghost-wrote the Dallas
Pollice Department’s immense traf
fic survey, and worked in the night
news room of radio station WFAA.
At 4 o’clock in the morning he got
a call to come back to A. & M.,
this time for good. He reported on
August 1, 1937, but 5 days before
he had married the girl in the col
lege’s publicity department who
back in 1933, gave him a job with
out pay pasting publicity clippings
in scrapbooks. Mrs. McElroy has a
degree in journalism.
He’s been here ever since, and
although he does all sorts of pub
licity stories, besides writing free
lance stories and articles, Mac
really hits his element in sports.
A while back, I said he was a sta
tistician. That’s Mac’s hobby. For
years now, all those statistics- and
dope on the Southwest conference
that appears regularly in dozens
of different newspapers and maga
zines (a list which includes Associ
ated Press, United Press, Interna
tional News Service, National
Broadcasting Company’s Bill Stern,
and the Saturday Evening Post’s,
Francis Wallace “Pigskin Review”)
comes from the keyboard of Mac’s
typewriter on the fourth stoop of
the administration building.
He is nationally known among
sports experts as the old man of
statistics, and goes for research so
strongly that he writes articles on
anything and everything.
Says Mac, “I was once consider
ed an expert on the soy bean, and
even after I had that reputation,
I had never seen a soy bean.”
And so it goes.
Whether Mac gets that QMC
commission he is now dickering
—NORTON—
(Continued from page 4)
Norton is the tackle slot. The un
known quantity at both tackles
could easily wreck what has the
possibilities of becoming a great
team, and Coach Norton is seek
ing an answer to this problem. In
addition to his tackle shortage
Norton is confronted with a ser
ious shortage of practice time.
With the speedup program in
effect at A. & M. limiting prac
tice to one session a day, the other
schools have been working out
twice daily for the past two weeks.
Practically the entire Aggie squad
has been in school all summer pre
paring to serve as officers in the
army. In addition, A. & M. will go
on a revised time schedule this
semester and classes will last un
til six o’clock instead of five as
formerly. This means that one
hour of daylight will be cut from
practice sessions.
But football fans may be as
sured of one fact, that regardless
of what happens, the Aggies will
be in there fighting all the way,
and in the words of Coach Norton
himself, “four straight wouldn’t
be bad”.
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-INTRAMURALS—
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other is not, the team which did
not show up loses the match by
forfeit. In the event neither team
shows up a double forfeit is de
clared and the record of both
teams is marred.
Adhere to Rules
It is necessary to adhere to the
time regulations because of the
great number of games which
must be played each day. Without
such strict rules the program would
never be completed according to
schedule. Forfeits are easy to
avoid if each manager has every
game announced at meal forma
tion. Forfeits count against an or
ganization’s record when the final
computations are made and may
cause a team to lose a league title.
The Intramural department has
advised that in case of bad weath
er everyone concerned should as
sume that scheduled matches will
be played unless an announcement
is made to the contrary. No one
should merely assume that a game
will not be played. This false as
sumption has resulted in a large
number of forfeits in the past.
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—DANIELS—
(Continued From Page 1)
to his nickname—(Ligthnin’—by
leading the conference in punt re
turns with an average of 18.3
yards on 13 returns. In the pas
sing department he ranked fourth
as to the basis of yards gained.
When one looks at this summary
of Leo Daniels’ accomplishments
in football he might think that Leo
was rather busy, but nevertheless
he found enough time to be the
regular rightfielder on last season’s
championship baseball team. Not
only was he a demon on the de
fense in the outer garden, but he
slugged out a better than .400 bat
ting average for the season. It was
his slugging in the first game of
the crucial championship series
against Texas University that car
ried the Aggies to victory.
Last June Leo was married to
Ruth Smith of Bryan. Mrs. Daniel
thinks “Leo’s All-American”.
-JAKE WEBSTER—
(Continued From Page 2)
The hardest one he says was S. M.
U. in 1940, and the roughest the
Cotton Bowl in 1941 against Ford-
ham.
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The University of Missouri was
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that county offered the largest
cash inducement in 1839.
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